Digg Editions Wed, Oct 09

Digg Editions Wed, Oct 09

RIGHT ON THE MONEY CHANGE OF TUNE How Coachella ’99 Lost A Million Dollars And Started An Empire theringer.com Before it was the megalithic event that towered over the music landscape, the Indio, California, the festival was a money-losing weekend in the desert. GOING THE EXTRA MILE I Drive For Uber And Lyft — Here’s Exactly How Much I Make In One Week businessinsider.com People always want to know how much money I make driving for Uber and Lyft, so I decided to track every penny I made for one week. NO SLACKING OFF The Amount Of Money You’d Have If You Invested $100 In These 2019 IPOs, Visualized digg.com 2019 has been a somewhat rocky year for IPOs, with many companies underperforming in the stock market. So if you’d invested $100 worth of stock in companies like Uber, Slack and Zoom in the beginning, here’s how much money you’d have right now. DIGG PICKS Make Better Videos With This Auto-Tracking Smartphone Stand indiegogo.com Wish you had a camera operator handy at a moment’s notice? This rotating stand and its companion app will help keep you in frame. THE REST IS HISTORY ‘WE COULDN’T FOCUS OUR EYES ON ANYTHING’ How Southwest Pilot Tammie Jo Shults Landed Fatal Flight 1380 elle.com Just 22 minutes after Flight 1380 took off from New York, the plane’s engine exploded and cracked a window, causing Jennifer Riordan to be sucked halfway out. WALKEN DOWN MEMORY LANE The Inside Story Of ‘Ripper,’ The Egregiously Bad Videogame wired.com The 1996 title featuring Christopher Walken was held up as an exemplar of gaming’s future. But things didn’t exactly work out that way. FLASH OF BRILLIANCE Flash Is Responsible For The Internet’s Most Creative Era vice.com The risk-taking creative culture of web design hasn’t been quite the same since Steve Jobs stuck a knife into Flash. VIDEO OF THE DAY DON’T GO DOWN THAT ROAD Man Laughs Uncontrollably At His Friend For Walking Into Glass Panel, Receives Some Swift Karma digg.com Let this be a lesson for all of us: be a friend. Don’t be a jerk. IN THE NEWS Trump Won’t Participate In The Impeachment Inquiry Matt Lauer Accused Of Raping NBC Colleague, Ronan Farrow Book Alleges Donald Trump Allegedly Hid Behind A Tapestry To Grope A Woman At Mar-A-Lago In The Early 2000s China Open To ‘Partial Trade Deal’ With US, As Tensions Rise Millions Face Power Outages In Northern, Central California Kurds Mobilize In Syria As Turkey Poised For Imminent Attack DIGG PICKS GoPro Hero 8 Black Is The Action Camera We’ve Been Hoping For digg.com Plenty of reviews for the latest GoPro have already hit, and it looks like we’re getting a superb hardware revision. The new model goes for $399.99, and ships later this month. If it’s not a door, don’t walk through it. If he’s a friend, don’t laugh at him. View the Edition at Digg.com »

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